MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Received a red light photo violation notice in the mail today

> > Those things should be illegal. I've read you don't have to pay them and there's
> > nothing that can be done about it. That may depend on the state though.
>
> When the red light violation envelope arrived, I thought it was from a questionable
> maneuver I
> made on the way to see McCartney while driving my wife's car. Then, I open it up and
> see it's
> for my car, not my wife's, issued by a town I didn't recall driving through. I
> thought,"What's she
> done?" Included on it are 3 really crappy, dark photos of an SUV. Finally, my eyes
> find the license
> plate in the 3rd picture, and it's not mine. The picture is also of a Toyota, which
> is not the make
> of my vehicle. WTF.
>
> The cop who issued the ticket wasn't in today. Hopefully, I can take care of this
> without having
> to send in some notarized letter contesting the ticket. The annoying thing is that I
> will have had
> to spend any time on this at all, including this bin post.

If the traffic violation ticket was filled out incorrectly, at least here in CT, you can have it nullified on the basis of a technicality. A nice little law that was made regarding other legal documents, but the traffic tickets fall under the guise of it and to change the law to exclude traffic tickets would require a great deal of other paperwork for the government that they are too lazy to do.

I was able to fight a ticket based upon an argument that it was only written to generate revenue and not as a means of public safety. Quite a few years ago, a road in the area that there are no houses on was closed after flooding took out the pavement and the town didn't have the funds to dig it all up and re-pave the road. However, even though the road was closed, they still left up the stop signs at the T-intersection where it meets up with a straightaway. One day, I was driving down the straightaway and knowing that the road on the right was closed, just drove through the stop sign. A cop was sitting there waiting to pull someone over, and got me. He wrote me at ticket for running a stop sign and I said that the road is closed so there's really not an intersection there, so what is the purpose of stopping? The cop said "I don't care. You ran a stop sign and now I am writing you a ticket."

I pleaded "not guilty" to the ticket and in my submission to the state I indicated that the road at that stop sign was closed and therefore the stop signs in place by the town serve no purpose with regards to public safety and are simply a means of generating revenue. I stated that there is no logical reason for me to have stopped and that my lack of stopping posed absolutely no risk to public safety at all. The state agreed with me and threw out the ticket. Since then, the town has just re-opened the road in order to continue to generate ticket revenue. You'd have to be an idiot to drive on the formerly closed road, so this is the town's way to get around the problem.